He's delirious again.

The doctor is with him--oh, I can't bear to hear him rave! It is awful! He calls for me, and yet does not know me.

O Jack, it makes my heart ache so, he is so weak! He came to see me--and then went away--I didn't know where he had gone.

And all the time he was starving here.

O God! It would be too dreadful--if he should die!" "We won't let him die!" he stoutly replied.